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In philosophy, contextualism mostly just emphasizes that actions and utterance happen inside a particular context. | In philosophy, contextualism mostly just emphasizes that actions and utterance happen inside a particular context. | ||
...for example to point out that te meaning of that action may only be understood in that context. | |||
And, somewhat more controversially, how ''right'' something is may be similarly contextual - which gets into [[ethical relativism]], or at least | |||
[[situational ethics]]. | |||